A kind Providence, however, is not forgetful of His own creation and so Tachienlu is now enjoying a fine crop of potatoes. These were introduced by the French missionaries many years ago and have proved a boon to these who live near the starvation line, The price is-1,000 cash per catty, and $1 will buy 27 catties. Potatoes and corn meal and a little yak beet make an excellent stew and this is very largely on what the poorer inhabitants live. Eggs, rice, fruit jand all are all carried to the ity from points four and five days away, and even pork is carried for days towards Tachienlu, So when transport and other things are taken into con-[sideration these foodstuffs are quite [beyond the common people, There Jare now signs of abundance of rain, rot only in the immediate district, but on the plains below so the people, Jamid all their suffering, are' look-Ing forward quite hopefully.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.